The problem with these yearly things I have noticed is that once you start entering them you start collecting these dates that you can look back on and think, 'What the Fuck?'. My suggestion to you is that while the lure of a bit of dosh and even a nice trip up to Paris are wonderfully enticing, don't enter. With each year that you enter you will gain another marker to remind you that another year has gone by. You will notice that you are getting old. Suddenly you will come to that awful realisation that you are not watching the que, you are in the bloody thing!
The solution I propose is simple: abondon all yearly things, aniversaries, birthdays, new years, everything as these markers are the cause of old age. Ignore them and you won't get any older.
17th: For the last while I have been wondering what material should use for the projection screens in my dome. For my other camera obscura installations I had used tracing paper, but this time round I wanted something that was stronger.
In the mean, time neatly poacked away in a drawer below my bed a shower curtain has been waiting for that Uereka ka ka ka ka moment. It has the look of thick tracing paper, slightly frosted, which is the ideal medium for projecting low resolution images upon. Now I must just find out if it is going to work and who stocks it.
While I have been remunating the deadline for my tax return and ABSA 2010 have been hurtling towards me. At the moment I am pretending that these deadlines do not exist in the supremely confident knowledge that by doing so, the tax return will fill itself in and my winning entry for ABSA will magically appear the night before the deadline. A plan that never fails.
7th: Well the little diversion of Christmas and New Years is over. Can't say that I particularyly enjoy the lemming mentality that consumes all during this time of the year. Dickens has a lot to answer for with his Scrooge character. So what if the guys was a miser, at least his careful ways ensured that Bob was never likely to lose his job. Perhaps Mr Dickens would have come up with a different story if he saw what misery was born of a complete lack of financial restraint. Yes the story is about a lot more than financial restraint but there are other ways of showing generocity other than screwing yourself financially which seems to be the norm for this time of year.
Well anyway the dome is coming along ok. My little diversion with my DIY Xmas tree (see december 2009) has meant that I am a little bit behind in terms of where I want to be, but the basic shapes are starting to accumulate. For the building process I am still following the tried and tested thumb suck model which has thus far served me extremely well.
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